For the third year in a row, Belgrade is visible on the dense spring calendar of European conferences and b2b events for video game creators. For the Win!, a versatile conference intended for all professionals from the gaming industry, but also from other creative-tech industries such as CG, VFX, animation and all types of digital design and storytelling, presents a rich program through several parallel program units and at three locations – May 29 and 30 at Bitef Theater, mts Dvorani and Karmakoma club.
For the Win! is conceived as a “new meeting point of the European gaming industry”, and year after year it expands its program. The goal is to pay attention to both mobile and PC game dev, as well as services and related sectors, as well as looking at the development of the wider ecosystem of the gaming industry. Therefore, it bears the label of b2b/stakeholder event. Domestic developers and creatives have the opportunity to listen to and meet the leaders of the global industry, to connect and make new contacts with colleagues from the region and the whole of Europe.
For the second time at the FTW! conference, we dedicate a separate program track to students, and lectures specially tailored for them, with a focus on art, soft skills, team culture, production and game design. Almost 150 students will again become a part of the largest Serbian professional conference dedicated to game development.
Lecturers come from the ranks of smaller and larger domestic companies and studios, with one foreign guest from Italy, and students apply through their faculties and professors. This part of the conference is completely free for all participants, and in this way SGA tries to provide an opportunity for all those interested to get acquainted with some of the aspects of work in the video game industry.
The speakers of this year’s Shif2Games program at the conference For the Win! are: Aleksa Janković (3D Generalist/VFX Artist, Shosha Games), Matija Ljubenović (Lead UI/UX Designer, Mad Head Games), Andrea Aleksić (Environment Artist, Ebb Software), Dragana Milošević (3D Environment Team Lead, Dreamline Entertainment), Nana Radenković (Co-Founder, Nova Iskra), Kristina Grubač & Tamara Vukov (OBRT), Relja Dereta (Co-Founder, Epic Assistants), Bojana Simić (People Operations Manager, Materriya), Ivica Milarić (Teaching Assistant, Academy of the Arts – University of Novi Sad), Simone Rebaudengo (Founder & Creative Director, studio oio.), Milan Ličina (Associate Professor/Founder, Metropolitan University/Vidra) and Vladan Điri Vasiljević (Motion Designer/Digital Compositor/Animator/3D Generalist, Crater Training Center).
The complete schedule of this program can be viewed on the official website of the conference ftwconference.com, where you can also find out other program details, while as part of the FAQ stranice you can find out about all other service information.
For the Win! is supported by Outfit7, Epic Games and 3 Lateral, Google, Unity Technologies, the Embassy of Poland, the Embassy of Belgium, Media Desk Creative Europe Serbia, and other ecosystem partners of SGA.